Example sentences of "he have been unable " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of the fact that enquiry statistics appear consistent over time and in different areas , he has been unable to find consistency in definition and recording of enquiries when he visited bureaux . |
| 2 | Ballesteros worries about such heavy defeats because he finds it incomprehensible that he has been unable to repel the thrusts of those opponents . |
| 3 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 4 | Ever since , he has been unable to rest and bemoans his gluttony and foolhardiness . |
| 5 | Forrest plays for the reserves tonight and will welcome the match practice as he has been unable to win his first team place back from Clive Baker . |
| 6 | In an unusual move a bookseller is preparing to give away his shop , complete with a five year lease and £15,000 worth of stock at retail , because he has been unable to find a buyer for it . |
| 7 | Husameddin offers nothing in the way of specific evidence to support his statement either about Molla Yegan 's resignation or about Molla Fenari 's appointment , however , and is indeed at pains to say that in spite of much research he has been unable to find any signatures of Molla Fenari 's dating from this second kadilik . |
| 8 | The offeror will need to show that he has been unable to trace the shareholders after reasonable enquiry , that the shares for which acceptances have been received when added to those held by untraceable shareholders amount to not less than the 90 per cent threshold , and that the consideration offered is fair and reasonable . |
| 9 | One resident says he has been unable to get out of his back garden after a lorry backed into the wall and buckled the gate . |
| 10 | Another says he has been unable to open his garage door for days after a skip filled with bricks was dumped outside . |
| 11 | Cloughie , probably now less adaptable to sudden change than he used to be , has been hamstrung by the departure of two high class central defenders , whom he has been unable to replace despite having cash in the bank . |
| 12 | Gravellier felt nervous , so nervous he 'd been unable to eat any breakfast . |
| 13 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |
| 14 | This was advice which he had been unable to fallow himself . |
| 15 | Now his hunting rifle had lost a piece from its firing mechanism and he had been unable to replace it . |
| 16 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 17 | Now he could start on all the little jobs he had been unable to do . |
| 18 | Mangon told them he had been unable to get work permits for a show at another venue . |
| 19 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 20 | From the moment the news had broken that he was not dead at all but very much alive in Australia he had been unable to think of anything else . |
| 21 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 22 | The gallery light was out — not unreasonable at this hour — and he had been unable to find the switch . |
| 23 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 24 | He had been unable to adapt to life at the school , she said . |
| 25 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 26 | Mr Bull said since Smith was released from prison in April 1990 , after laundering stolen cheques , he had been unable to get a job until he managed to fool the WDA . |
| 27 | He told the abbot of Fécamp that he had heard that there was a letter of Pope Eugenius ( obviously a corruption of Hyginus ) which had settled the question , but he had been unable to get any information about this alleged source . |
| 28 | He had originally charged only 10% back in 1946 , at a time when he was principally concerned with much lower-level searches , and had frequently experienced total losses when he had been unable to complete an assignment satisfactorily . |
| 29 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 30 | Huxley had turned the tables admirably , according to Sir Joseph Hooker , but he had been unable to throw his voice over so large an assembly . |